Thanks to its victory at the Oscars and a passionate acceptance speech from its filmmakers, the searing documentary “No Other Land” has drawn more attention than ever both to itself and to the ongoing crisis between Palestinians and Israelis in the West Bank.
And that has made it a political lightning rod that has drawn criticism from Israel and, perhaps unexpectedly, from some pro-Palestinian activist organizations.
Filmed from 2019 to just days after the Hamas attacks on Oct. 7, 2023, “No Other Land” documents the destruction of Palestinian homes in Masafer Yatta, a collection of West Bank hamlets which was declared a “closed military training zone” in 1980 and which in recent years has been targeted by Israeli military and settlers.